EPLAN Electric P8 offers unlimited possibilities for project planning, documentation, and management of automation projects.With your choice of graphical or object orientation as well as refined platform technology, this high-end system is breaking new ground in electrical engineering. Its unique functional scope and direct connection to fluid and EMSR technology makes interdisciplinary work a reality.

Data from earlier planning phases can simply be imported using interfaces like ODBC, XML, or Excel – for consistency and perfect integration.

In other words: To shape your future, use EPLAN Electric P8.

EPLAN platform strategy: The modular platform provides core functions that are required in electro-CAE as well as in fluid or instrumentation & control engineering. The advantage of this is consistent data management and uniform processing in all disciplines.

EPLAN Pro Panel Professional convinces through its deep degree of integration in the EPLAN platform and utilizes its manifold basic techniques such as the EPLAN device concept, the macro and options technology, access to the EPLAN Data Portal, etc. The design approach is individual: Optionally on the basis of a schematic or directly as layout of the enclosure in 3D. The devices provided for the mounting layout are displayed well-structured in Navigators or lists. During placing the system checks whether the positioning is carried out on the correct mounting panel.

The innovative eTouch technology allows components to be comfortably aligned and positioned exactly. Installation regulations and minimum spacing to manufacturer specification are taken into account as are the correct positioning of devices, wire ducts and mounting rails, including collision checks. The overview of all the designed devices and components allows the items to be checked simply on the basis of the parts data. Reports and bills of materials contain precise information also about items that vary in length such as wire ducts or mounting rails. Exact specifications therefore for manufacturing and mounting. Changes in the schematic or mounting layout are included in the entire project. The system informs interdisciplinarily and updates the associated drawings, bills of materials and legends automatically if desired. Thus ensuring uniform and consistent data that are always up to date.

Complete consistencyThe software makes professional 3D layout planning easy even for the occasional user. Production relevant NC data for holes or cutouts is taken account in the 3D model and can be further processed. In addition to associative mounting diagrams special drilling templates for manufacturing can, for example, also be created. Modifications to housings, doors or mounting panels are transferred directly to the NC production systems via an NC interface. The deep manufacturing integration is also continued in the virtual wiring of the enclosure. The results of the length-optimized virtual wiring and cabling can in turn be used to optimize the schematic. The new quality in enclosure engineering covers all the phases of product development. The realistic 3D representation ensures high-quality data for manufacturing, mounting and operation. It facilitates the consistent creation, provision and maintenance of the documentation and accelerates the product engineering process persistently.

Manifold possibilities

EPLAN Pro Panel Professional provides manifold possibilities for the field of integrative enclosure planning, pre-assembly and production.

Added value at a glance

Benefit from numerous advantages for the virtual enclosure layout in 3D.

EPLAN Fluid supports fluid engineering with automated documentation. Simple handling, numerous test functions, and standard support make your design efficient – from now on the system assumes time-consuming standard tasks.

Compared with conventional, mostly CAD-based systems EPLAN Fluid comes with unique logic functions and automatisms that accelerate your fluid planning. The modern user interface with extensive drawing functions helps you familiarize yourself with its full potential – of course with the complete data stock from the predecessor system fluidPLAN. The autoconnect function applies to all connections that can be provided and analyzed with logical properties. This means you have an overview of all components, including the small parts like connectors, hoses, and pipes – and therefore a firm grip on the costs!

The new Engineering platform is your key to the future, providing core functions for fluid, electrical, measuring, and control engineering as well as CAE for electrica systems. Based on a unified platform all systems are suppliedfrom the same database. From now on multiple data entries and inconsistencies are history.

Besides a unified database the platform also includes basic functions like thegraphical editor (for circuit diagrams, fluid plans, process control group plans), a unified rights management, the viewer, online/offline foreign language transla-tions, and the comprehensive audit system. The unique framework concept deliversimpressively fast results – not least of all owing to the unified look & feel throughout all applications.

EPLAN PPE is the optimal tool for successful international collaboration in the planning and realization of electrical, measuring, and control system projects. Besides the maximum data and service compatibility, also the wide range of powerful interfaces, utilizing the full capacity of modern communication channels, supports collaboration by the whole project team over all the planning stages. This mobility and flexibility is particularly effective in the internal environment. For example, EPLAN PPE can also simplify and automatically advance adaptation and modernization processes at your own company. The new EPLAN technology provides a platform where fluid, electrical, measuring, and control engineering caninteract directly in interdisciplinary collaboration.

The overall concept behind EPLAN PPE is aligned to the present demands of measuring, control, and automation technologies. If work is to conform to the standards, a process control group concept based on NAMUR recommendations must be integrated. These NAMUR specifications for process control engineering are fully supported by EPLAN PPE. Its practical orientation and ease of use make EPLAN PPE an efficient tool for modern process plant engineering. Established methods and innovative developments have been combined into an extremely powerful and efficient solution.

The new modular Engineering platform technology is your key to the future, providing core functions for fluid, electrical, measuring, and control engineering as well as CAE for electrical systems. Based on a unified platform all systems are supplied from the same database. From now on multiple data entries and inconsistencies are history.

Besides a unified database the platform also includes basic functions like the graphical editor (for circuit diagrams, fluid plans, process control group plans), a unified rights management, the viewer, online/offline foreign language translations, and the comprehensive audit system. The unique framework concept delivers impressively fast results – not least of all owing to the unified look & feel throughout all applications.

With the EPLAN Engineering Center (EEC), EPLAN offers its customers a tool that is designed to operate across disciplines: the consistent solution enables mechatronic configuration and automated documentation for sales, engineering and production. This means a reduction in time and cost in engineering as well as optimised documentation quality. Prerequisite for configuration is breaking down the production portfolio in a modular system with mechatronic functional units. By mechatronics in configuration, EPLAN understands both the paradigm as well as the specific technology: the interdisciplinary interaction of all disciplines in the EEC corresponds to the consistent workflow of modern product development processes.

With the EPLAN Engineering Center (EEC), EPLAN offers its customers a tool that is designed to operate across disciplines: the consistent solution enables mechatronic configuration and automated documentation for sales, engineering and production. This means a reduction in time and cost in engineering as well as optimised documentation quality. Prerequisite for configuration is breaking down the production portfolio in a modular system with mechatronic functional units. By mechatronics in configuration, EPLAN understands both the paradigm as well as the specific technology: the interdisciplinary interaction of all disciplines in the EEC corresponds to the consistent workflow of modern product development processes.

EPLAN Harness proD is a modern 3D software system for the efficient design and documentation of cable harnesses. The system's strengths lie in the automated steps involved, from importing the wiring lists from the EPLAN Platform to routing the cables and generating the documentation and 2D nail board drawings. The ability to take over mechanically relevant information from various MCAD systems and the ECAD connection information means that EPLAN Harness proD has the potential to be seamlessly integrated into PDM environments. This allows for the design of the cable harness even when there is no mechanical prototype available. In brief: development times are reduced, productivity increases and project quality is improved on a continuous basis.